Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal certificate_of_authenticity PARKER (3498790 R

PARKER (3498790 R

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers

Sold with copies of Service Records

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Lingard Green

Acting Second-in-Command

Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal certificate_of_authenticity PARKER (3498790 RVictorian issue, swiveling scroll, large letters on reverse (1855 74), officially engraved: MATHEW HERRON PTE. 55TH. FOOT. Very fine. Matthew Herron a labourer from Kirealdy, attested for service in the 55th Foot at Edinburgh on 28th December 1833, aged eighteen and a half years, he was given the regimental number of 903. He served for 22 years, 151 days being discharged medically unfit 30th June 1856. His overseas service included nearly seven years